For a while now I’ve been making garden sculptures from old tools, welded or bolted onto metal poles (see some very early experiments in this post from 2009 >>). Displaying these in my own tiny garden has become a bit of a problem, as I simply don’t have the space t0 show them off to [...]
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Garden fence sculptures
Posted in Visual art, tagged garden sculpture, sculpture, tools on May 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
‘C’ stick – day 20
Posted in Stuff, Visual art, tagged drill bit, iron, rust on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
So, 20 days on and the piece has hardly changed (despite more wet weather here in the UK!)… I had expected the stem to start rusting by now but it is clearly made of stern stuff! Note my new water butt in the background – my new latest obsession is collecting rain water (my area [...]
Ding! (fries are done…)
Posted in Steampunk, Stuff, tagged bell, brass, ding on May 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a little something I found in my local charity shop for £3 UK! Considering my obsession with things old and brassy, I simply couldn’t resist it! It was a bit tarnished so I cleaned it up with some wire wool and Brasso – I don’t think I ruined any great ancient patina as I [...]
Rust Report, Day 5
Posted in Finds, Stuff, Visual art on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Five days on from planting my ‘C’ plant marker, I popped out to see how it was faring. Here is a shot of the rust patterning that has developed so far: As you can see the top ‘C’ section, which I had angle ground the protective covering from, has already started to develop quite a [...]
New Heavy metal flute stand
Posted in Music, Visual art, tagged flute, flute stand, silver on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A while ago I made a flute stand out of scrap bits of metal for Karen, the flute player in The Cakes – see that post here >> I have now just made another version for another flute playing friend of mine. Based on the same concept (ie welded together bits of scrap metal, drill [...]
Rusty iron sculptures
Posted in Visual art, tagged sculpture, Sussex Orthopaedic Treatment Centre in Haywards Heath on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I have spent a bit of time in and around hospitals in Brighton recently (a long story, nothing too serious luckily!). At the very smart Sussex Orthopaedic Treatment Centre in Haywards Heath, I spotted the following bits of art near the entrance / drop off area: Rusty iron, sculptures in the outdoors… What’s not to love!! The [...]
Copper guitar knob project
Posted in Music, Steampunk, Visual art, tagged brass, copper, copper pipe, electric guitar, guitar, Ibanez, potentiometer on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some time back I lost one of the knurled knobs from my trusty old Ibanez electric guitar…. having failed to find a replacement anywhere, I though I’d have a go at making a new one from copper and brass – it wouldn’t look the same of course but would hopefully echo the brassy look of [...]
Prototype of coppery things to come. . .
Posted in Steampunk, Visual art, tagged brass, copper, copper pipe, keyring, light pull, steampunk on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a couple of shots of my latest set of creations – a series of keyrings or light pulls (depending on the size and weight of them) made in a copper/brass steampunk styling. Below is a representative sample – I forgot to put anything in to show scale but the relative sized of the various [...]
Old sculpture photos
Posted in Visual art, tagged found objects, garden, sculpture, Visual art, welding on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been doing a lot of sorting out in ‘Star Command’ recently (my loft / general dumping ground which is meant to be being converted to my new office!) – amazing what one finds during the course of such activity! Amongst a million old back-up disks from various defunct computers, here are some old photos [...]
A new anemometer spotted in my area. . . a year to the day!
Posted in Steampunk, Stuff, tagged anemometer, copper, copper pipe, steampunk, windvane on October 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Want to know something really spooky!!?? Last year (on this very day!) I posted the following about my new obsession with anemometers. I’ve not really spotted any others since and then, lo and behold (whilst walking to my car following a cuppa with a mate today), I spotted the following in the garden in a house in [...]
